MAN has admitted sending death threats and bullets to President Nicolas Sarkozy and other politicians, a police official said yesterday, signalling the end of a long search for the author of the mysterious letters.

Around 1.7 million Basques were urged to vote in elections today for the government in Spain’s most turbulent region.

Two men suspected of involvement in the deadly 2006 ETA bombing at Madrid’s airport have been taken into custody in France, it is reported.

THE Irish American writer who claims to be the knock-on result of a roll in the hay between Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene has been dropped from tonight’s Late Late Show because the topic is too hot for Irish audiences.

Protesting students shut down Eurostar trains to the UK and blocked a convoy of parts for the crown jewel of European aviation, Airbus’ A380, to put more pressure on France’s embattled government to repeal a new labour law.

A FATHER who drugged his children’s tennis opponents, leading to a player’s death, was sentenced to eight years in prison after being convicted yesterday.

THE world’s largest passenger plane, the Airbus A380, completed its maiden flight yesterday over the Pyrenees.

A CAR bomb exploded near Madrid’s main convention centre yesterday, injuring 43 people, hours before Spanish and Mexican leaders were due there and after a warning from the Basque separatist group ETA.

Two of Spain’s most wanted alleged terrorists and at least 16 other suspected members of the armed Basque separatist group Eta were captured today in a vast French-Spanish police operation, authorities said.

A previously unknown terror group is threatening to blow up French railway tracks unless it is paid millions of euro.

France’s Interior Ministry has received threatening letters demanding millions of euro or warning that French rail tracks will be bombed, authorities said today.

A YEAR ago, towns and beaches near here were awash with toxic fuel from the Prestige oil spill.

A family of five killed in the France train fire was returning from a one-day visit to Paris to see the city where the father had proposed to his future wife more than 16 years earlier.

A large cache of explosives allegedly belonging to the Spanish separatist group ETA has been found near the French border with Spain.

Spanish police today arrested six suspected members of the outlawed Basque separatist group ETA and seized explosives, submachine-guns and handguns in early morning raids.

At least 10 people were crushed to death and 85 injured when a huge tree was blown down during a freak storm in eastern France.

A five-year-old girl was injured in a mud slide that swept through her family’s apartment as heavy rains hammered southwestern France.